Coaction Agreement Process
Coaction Agreement Process
Unlike mediation, Coaction Agreements are not about resolving conflicts, healing wounds or fixing anything. Rather, a coaction agreement is a co-created agreement that serves as a template and living document for your operations going forward between two or more parties engaged in a seemingly intractable conflict. I use the term coaction because it is possible that parties may not be able to be in alignment, cohesion or harmony. They may find it impossible to understand each other. However, even in tough situations, sometimes people can still productively work alongside others who are doing similar tasks. In coaction you will out of necessity interact with other coactors.
You will have conversations and interconnections. You may even need to have some productive collaboration with each other. In the model I am suggesting, coaction means that as you interact, each of you are aware of your own learning process and the honoring, nurturing and protection of your own learning process. This is a process where all coactors to honor, nurture and protect the learning processes of all even if they are in conflict.
An assessment is necessary to ascertain if a conflict is eligible for a coaction process. Please contact me to discuss the assessment process.